Ryan & Melanie Belshee

The Old Fashioned, Unmuddled

Skip the muddling and make a whole bottle of Old Fashioned cocktails with this comprehensive DIY kit. Just add your favorite rye or bourbon--the kit has everything else you need to produce a perfectly balanced batch of the classic cocktail for sophisticated sipping. It includes a 500 ML Italian glass bottle with built-in cap and custom-designed label, a 4 inch funnel, a natural coffee filter, and a vial of 100% organic botanicals with easy instructions to transform your liquor into an Old Fashioned redolent with coriander, cardamom, anise, and orange. The label invites customization to record your cocktail creation. Assembled in Nevada by cocktail-loving couple Ryan and Melanie Belshee. Refill kits also available to keep the drinks flowing.

Ryan & Melanie Belshee

As an Eagle Scout, Ryan Belshee has always enjoyed creating things by hand. Ryan has a thirst for knowledge and loves a good experiment. On a whim Ryan decided to try his hand at making a batch of Absinthe at home. Unfortunately, private distilling is illegal in Oregon and it can be dangerous. With a little research he decided to give infusion a try. Through some trial and error the Absinthe infusion spice blend was born. Following the successful discovery, Ryan put his BA from Portland State University's Business school to good use and turned his delicious experiment into a company. When he's not busy grinding and blending spices, Ryan keeps his wife Melanie on her toes coming up with the new flavor profiles and a wide range of other crazy ideas. The pair met in high school and celebrated 15 years of marriage this year.
Melanie Belshee dreamed of being an artist from a very young age. Her passion for art carried grew into a career after earning her Bachelors of Science in Graphic design from the Art Institute of Portland in 2001. Originally wanting to work as a children's book illustrator, Melanie fell in love with Graphic Design and has been practicing her craft for the last 15 years helping large businesses and small non-profits create and maintain their branding image. Now as a small business owner and manufacturer, Melanie is thrilled to be able to share her work on a product line that is close to her heart. Always a fan of vintage, historical works; creating the look and feel for her very own product line has been a dream come true. Melanie aspires to keep every package design as historically accurate as possible along the way spending hours researching in an effort to keep the style true to the prohibition era period.

She really enjoyed the process of making the old fashioned and it tastes great!

She really enjoyed the process of making the old fashioned and it tastes great!

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The packaging was nice with a decorated cardboard box. However, it was to contain 4 pieces and instructions, and when the box was opened it was missing the instructions and key pieces. UncommonGoods...Read complete review

The packaging was nice with a decorated cardboard box. However, it was to contain 4 pieces and instructions, and when the box was opened it was missing the instructions and key pieces. UncommonGoods was contacted and they are sending a whole new product via overnight shipping. However, the product is on back order, not a fault to UncommonGoods, and will be another 3 weeks before it's available. I assume just a packaging mistake via the artist/company, but UncommonGoods displays excellent customer service.

Received as gift. I'm not a big mixed drink guy (mostly beer), but I really liked this. It is fun to make, impressive as a gift, and tasty. Great attention to detail and quality - very easy to follow directions.

It is really straight forward and easy to use. I did have to shake the botanicals much more often than I thought I would have to as it mixed with my whiskey. Bottom line is it made a very tasty Old Fashioned that I can enjoy at anytime. Makes it very convenient when you want to have a drink and do not have to have the ingredients on hand.

Ordered this as a gift for an Old Fashioned lover. We haven't made it quite yet, but the recipient was very excited and thought it was a pretty cool idea. Do want to pick up a bottle and a jar to mix in, so you can give it all together. Packaging was very nice.

My husband loves an Old Fashion, especially being from Wisconsin. He also loves to brew his own beer at home, so this fit right into his style and hobbies. Easy to use and to customized the strength of the infusion flavor. Great packaging for the product as a whole. The only con would be that you might need a few extra filters (my husband used coffee filters).

Service and delivery comments:

Delivery was prompt and arrived in perfect condition. I had an original issue with the first product I received. I contacted UncommonGoods and they were 100% wonderful. They responded to my email on the same day, and it was on Christmas day! They shipped me a whole new product with overnight shipping completely free to me. Wonderful company that obviously cares about each of their customers.

Description:
Potable Potions While managing a bar in San
Francisco part of Genevieve Brazelton's job was coming up with a 10-drink seasonal cocktail menu every few months. (We'd do that for free...hint hint.) Soon she was hooked but not on hooch. ...